Category: Resources

  • Meditations on the Trinity

    Here three meditations from our Trinity Sunday service taken from the Lectionary readings. These can be used for personal devotions or set up as three stations in a group setting. We divided into groups and spent about ten minutes at each one.   Trinity – God the Father Setting: Places to sit, a vase of greenery,…

  • A simple All-age Pentecost celebration

    Here is how we celebrated Pentecost this year over brunch. A lot of our ideas were taken from this wonderful resource. You can delegate different parts of this service to different people. Pentecost Celebration Decorations – candles, orange or red flowers, food. Introduction Today is a great Christian holiday. Today is Pentecost Sunday and on Pentecost Sunday…

  • A couple of communion meal liturgies

    Communion – Jesus on the Road Share a time of recognizing Jesus walking beside you. Show the story of when Jesus appeared to his friends along the road to Emmaus. They were very upset and confused because he had died and so they didn’t recognize him at first. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmmTWQn95xQ Let us say together: The Lord…

  • Greening of the Cross Liturgy

    Set up: Movie clip, slideshow, cross structure or drawn on ground with chalk or rocks, greenery or flowers near by. Play clip of Easter Resurrection appearances.’ Until 4min 43 sec.  Greening of the Cross Jesus, the first of the sleepers has risen. Power is His to wake us all from darkness. To bring life into every…

  • A simple Tenebrae Service

    Set up: Table with communion meal and Christ candle, music player, handouts of readings with images throughout. Introduction This morning we are celebrating a medieval liturgy called the Tenebrae. Tenebrae is the Latin word for darkness or shadows and this service is a representation of the darkness that covered the world at the death of Jesus.…

  • A simple Ash service

    Set-up: Bowl of Ash. The ‘wisdom of ash’ poem printed on the wall. (below) Native white flowers in basket. Communion. Psalm pages for each person. Optional Kids package – pretzels – remind us of praying arms and some plasticine to make something out of.  Introduction – with picture of Spring. Lent has a long history. It…

  • Holy week – All-age meditation

    Holy Week – Walk This final week of Lent we walk alongside Jesus on his road to the cross. Our ‘Walk’ passage to spend time with is Isaiah 42:1-9. Kids might like to watch this clip of the Easter story. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkNTU_Vv5Ew Isaiah 42:1-9 (NASB) God’s Promise concerning His Servant. 42 “Behold, My Servant, whom I [a]uphold; My chosen one in…

  • A cup garden for your Lent display

    A moment from our dinner service.. 2 Corinthians 3:16-18 And the Lord—who is the Spirit—makes us more and more like him as we are changed into his glorious image..And so we are changed, much like Jesus, our lives gradually becoming brighter and more beautiful as God enters our lives and we become like him. Cup…

  • Advent Calendar & St Nic fun for the kids

    Advent Calendar to Colour Here’s a simple interactive advent calendar to colour. advent-calendar-2016 The story of St Nicholas for kids This is the story of the first Santa Claus, St. Nicholas. To this day people say that St. Nicholas, or Santa, is the special friend of children and he still has many helpers at Christmas…

  • Paper Plane Intercession

    Materials: Paper squares for each person, pens, blu tac. Opening Prayer Creator, source of our life, We come to you. May this time together be for the welcome of your tenderness and strength in and through our lives. (Silence) In this season of change we call Spring or tadpole season, we are stopping to remember…